Patents Examined by Xiaobei Wang
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Patent number: 12371757Abstract: Provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent adhesion with an insulating coating even if the thickness of the insulating coating is reduced. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present disclosure has an insulating coating on at least one surface of the steel sheet, where the insulating coating has a P-concentrated layer on both a surface side and an interface side with a steel substrate, and a P concentration of the P-concentrated layer is higher than a P concentration in the steel substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Souichiro Yoshizaki, Yukino Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Kunihiro Senda
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Patent number: 12364360Abstract: The invention relates to a coated metal cooking rack compatible with induction healing, comprising a metal body including a heating face bearing a protective coating and a cooking face bearing an anti-adhesive coating forming a cooking surface. According to the invention, the metal body is made of two-sided aluminized ferromagnetic low-carbon steel sheet comprising a ferromagnetic low-carbon steel substrate having on each of its two faces an outer layer comprising an aluminum-based matrix, an intermediate layer comprising iron/aluminum intermetallic compounds being arranged between the ferromagnetic low-carbon steel substrate and the outer layer, and at least on the bottom of the heating face the outer layer has a thickness of less than 27 ?m, preferably less than 20 ?m, and even more preferably less than 18 ?m. The invention also relates to a culinary article, an electric cooking appliance and a method of obtaining a coated metal cooking rack.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: SEB S.A.Inventors: Martin Rubio, Jean-Francois Brasset
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Patent number: 12359316Abstract: Provided herein is a hydrogen permeation barrier coating, a coated substrate, and methods of coating a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Abdellatif M. Yacout, Sumit Bhattacharya, Yinbin Miao, Nicolas E. Stauff
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Patent number: 12358559Abstract: This vehicle body structural member is a vehicle body structural member (1) extending in a longitudinal direction, wherein, in at least a portion thereof in the longitudinal direction, a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction satisfies the Expressions (1) to (3). ? cr > ? y Expression ? ( 1 ) ? cr = k ? ? 2 ? Et 2 12 ? ( 1 - v 2 ) ? b f 2 Expression ? ( 2 ) k = 4.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko Abe
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Patent number: 12359335Abstract: A method for decorating metallic or non-metallic surfaces treated with Physical Void Deposition, PVD, comprising: an electrochemical activation action of the decoration by means of an electrical circuit with electrodes in electrical contact and for at least one thereof with the mediation of an electrolytic solution towards a surface being treated; an electrically conductive surface facing one of said electrodes to form said surface being treated; at least one masking resistant to the electrochemical activation action of the decoration and interposed between the facing electrode and the surface being treated; and has the electrochemical action of activating the decoration of the treated surface occurs by electrochemical oxidation of the metallic oxide layer normally present on the electrically conductive surface whether it is placed below the PVD coating layer, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventor: Stefano Muratori
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Patent number: 12345295Abstract: A sliding member includes a base material and an alloy layer that includes Cu as a main component and Bi and having a sliding surface formed on a side opposite to the base material. The alloy layer has a first region and a second region. The first region is set to a region taking up 30% of the thickness of the alloy layer which is from an interface in contact with the base material toward the sliding surface. The second region is set to a region taking up 10% of the thickness of the alloy layer which is from the sliding surface toward the base material. A larger number of Bi phases having larger cross-sectional areas are distributed in an arbitrary observation cross section as Bi phases included in the second region compared to Bi phases included in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Masahiro Nakai
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Patent number: 12337739Abstract: Provided are a composite member, a seat for automobile, and a component for automobile that suppress a decrease in strength at a connection place between a metal member and a fiber-reinforced member. A composite member includes: a fiber-reinforced member formed by impregnating a plurality of sheet-shaped core materials with a matrix resin; and a metal member joined to the fiber-reinforced member. The composite member has a structure in which a part of the metal member is sandwiched and fixed between a plurality of the core materials stacked in a thickness direction at a joint place between the fiber-reinforced member and the metal member.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kento Yoshida
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Patent number: 12331382Abstract: Powder alloy compositions and associated additive manufacturing techniques are described herein for production of sintered articles with microstructure and/or enhanced wear and corrosion resistance. In some embodiments, an article comprises sintered cobalt-based alloy having chromium carbide precipitates dispersed therein, the chromium carbide precipitates having an average size less than 4 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Martin G. Perez, Paul D. Prichard, Matthew Yao, John Skwara, Abdelhakim Belhadjhamida, Kevin M. Gamble, Michael J. Meyer
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Patent number: 12330568Abstract: A metal band as an insert for trim strips, sealing strips, or edge protection strips, in particular for motor vehicles, wherein the surface is profiled at at least one flat side of the band to increase the adhesion between the metal band and a plastic or rubber coating. These metal bands can also be designed with a plurality of openings following one another in the longitudinal direction of the band, in particular cut and roll-stretched or punched slots.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: BFC FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBHInventor: Ali Yildirim
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Patent number: 12329963Abstract: The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation devices and methods of fabrication, and in particular to anatomically contoured spinal cord stimulation leads for high density neural interfaces and methods of microfabricating the stimulation leads. Particularly, aspects are directed to a thin film lead assembly that includes a cable having: a first supporting structure formed of dielectric material, a first set of conductive traces formed on the first supporting structure, a second supporting structure formed of dielectric material, and a second set of conductive traces formed on the second supporting structure. The thin film lead assembly also includes an electrode assembly having: a third supporting structure formed of dielectric material, a first set of electrodes in electrical connection with the first set of conductive traces, and a second set of electrodes in electrical connection with the second set of conductive traces.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Bo Lu, Ken Rys
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Patent number: 12322533Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-strength R-T-B rare earth permanent magnet and a preparation method thereof. The magnet contains 0.3-1.5 wt. % of an element Zr, and a cast strip prepared through vacuum induction melting and melt spinning is treated at a high temperature to make the element Zr therein precipitate in a form of fibrous Zr compounds from R-rich phases, and the fibrous Zr compounds can be uniformly mixed with magnetic powder after hydrogen decrepitation and powder jet milling and mixing, and gradually grow into rod-like Zr compounds existing in the R-rich intergranular phases during the sintering of a green compact. By adjusting the content of the element Zr, sintering temperature and time and other process parameters, the morphology, size and distribution of Zr compounds can be effectively controlled, and the mechanical properties of the magnet can be improved by strengthening the R-rich intergranular phases without deteriorating the magnetic properties of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: ZHEJIANG INNUOVO MAGNETICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Biao Chen, Song Fu, Xiaoming Hu, Zhaoneng Zhang, Lixu Wang, Chao Man
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Patent number: 12285804Abstract: A method for producing an additively manufactured, graded composite transition joint (AM-GCTJ) includes preparing a grating or lattice pattern from a first alloy A; the grating or lattice pattern includes pores in the grating or lattice patterns. The grating pattern is built from a first end to a second end being denser on the first end than on second end, and gradually reduces density by increasing the pore size and/or reducing density of the grating or lattice pattern; adding a second alloy B powder to the second end of grating or lattice pattern. The second alloy B powder is filled towards the first end. A composite is formed of first alloy A and second alloy B powder in the AM-GCTJ. The composite is subjected to hot isostatic pressing (HIP) to densify the composite. The second alloy B is graduated from the first end to the second end O of AM-GCTJ.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignees: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, UT Battelle, LLC, West Virginia University Board of Governors on Behalf of West Virginia University, Carpenter Technology CorporationInventors: Xingbo Liu, Zhili Feng, Yanli Wang, David Novotnak, Haiyang Qian
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Patent number: 12280337Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a method of manufacturing a spiral sheet product via an additive manufacturing process, the method comprising: obtaining an electronic file representing a geometry of the spiral sheet product; and controlling an additive manufacturing apparatus to manufacture, via the additive manufacturing process, the spiral sheet product according to the geometry specified in the electronic file. The geometry of the spiral sheet product comprises: a geometric model of a spiral body revolving around a longitudinal axis, the spiral body comprising spiral sections repeating along the longitudinal axis; each spiral section comprising unit cells repeating along a spiral length of the spiral section; and each unit cell comprising a geometric pattern, such that the repetitive geometric pattern functionalizes the spiral sheet product that is arrangeable into a flat sheet product that is larger than a build chamber of the additive manufacturing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Nanyang Technological UniversityInventors: Wen See Tan, Jia An, Tzyy Haur Chong, Chee Kai Chua
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Patent number: 12276028Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Takashima, Mai Aoyama, Yusuke Okumura, Tomomi Kanazawa, Katsuya Hoshino, Hiroshi Matsuda, Ei Okumura, Yoichi Makimizu, Masaki Koba
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Patent number: 12266509Abstract: A processing tool, comprising a processing chamber for processing a work piece, the processing chamber including at least one component part that is coated with multi-layer protective coating including (a) an aluminum layer formed on the at least one component part and (b) a ceramic coating formed on the aluminum layer. In various embodiments, the multi-layer protective coating can be applied to at least one component part prior to assembly of the processing chamber or at least partially in situ the processing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: LAM RESEARH CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Konkola, Ramesh Chandrasekharan, Andrew H. Breninger, Tony Shaleen Kaushal
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Patent number: 12266791Abstract: A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an alkaline storage battery is provided. The hydrogen storage alloy provided is a hydrogen storage alloy used for an alkaline storage battery that has, as a main phase, one or two crystal structures selected from an A2B7-type structure and an AB3-type structure, and that is represented by a general formula: (La1?a?bCeaSmb)1?cMgcNidAleCrf (where suffixes a, b, c, d, e, and f in this formula (1) meet the following conditions: 0<a?0.15; 0?b?0.15; 0.17?c?0.32; 0.02?e?0.10; 0?f?0.05; and 2.95?d+e+f?3.50.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: JAPAN METALS AND CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takao Sawa, Saki Notoyama, Tomoki Souma, Katsuyuki Kudo, Takuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 12258647Abstract: A steel sheet according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, ferrite: 40% or more and 70% or less, a total of bainite and tempered martensite: 5% or more and 30% or less, retained austenite: 4% or more and 18% or less, fresh martensite: 8% or more and 35% or less, and the remainder: 5% or less. Cementite particles are present in the retained austenite, a ratio of an area fraction of the cementite particles in the retained austenite to an area fraction of the retained austenite is 5% or more and 25% or less, and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more and less than 980 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yusuke Wada, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shotaro Terashima, Lingling Yang, Takeshi Yokota
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Patent number: 12257631Abstract: The present invention provides silver nanoparticles that form a sintered body having a high shear strength and a low specific resistance when sintered at a low temperature (for example, 200° C. or less), even though the silver nanoparticles have an average particle diameter as large as 200 nm or more. Silver nanoparticles having an average particle diameter of 200 to 600 nm, wherein an exothermic peak due to binding of the silver nanoparticles in thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis appears at less than 175° C., and a weight loss on heating from 30 to 500° C. by thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis is 0.4% by weight or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: OSAKA SODA CO., LTDInventors: Takamichi Mori, Junichiro Minami, Naruhito Iwasa, Masatoshi Okuda
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Patent number: 12241149Abstract: An electrical contact element for a plug-in connector has a metallic base body and a wear layer applied to the base body. The wear layer consists of pure ruthenium or of an alloy with the components 50-100% w/w ruthenium, 0-30% w/w nickel, 0-20% w/w chromium, 0-20% w/w cobalt, 0-20% w/w platinum and 0-1% w/w further alloy elements. A metallic intermediary layer is arranged between the base body and the wear layer, which has a thickness ranging from 1.5 ?m to 4.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: ERNI INTERNATIONAL AGInventor: Michael Burger
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Patent number: 12226820Abstract: Provided is a bonding sheet using a copper particle that is less prone to deteriorate the sintering property due to oxidation of the copper particle, and can form a dense bonding layer having fewer voids, and can also bond an electronic component and the like with a high bonding strength. A bonding sheet (1) contains a copper particle (2) and a solvent (3) having a boiling point of 150° C. or higher, in which the copper particle (2) has a surface covered with an organic protective film, the content ratio of the copper particle (2) to the solvent (3) is in the range of 99:1 to 90:10 by mass, and the BET diameter of the copper particle (2) is in the range of 50 nm to 300 nm both inclusive.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Masuyama, Kohei Otogawa, Tomohiko Yamaguchi, Kiyotaka Nakaya